It's May 25, 2024, 07:36:51 AM
Now that I bumped it in the car all the way through I see what Matty means. Doesn’t sound up to par with other Dre releases. I’m guessing these versions were mixed for tv speakers
as suspected these are not the real mixes or a proper release. it's not even as good as the game-rips which is supposedly mixed for surround sound (explaining why is sounds weird)...https://www.reddit.com/r/riprequestsnew/comments/rs5bnc/share_psa_too_2021_dr_dre_the_contract_flacm4a/
i don’t think it was mixed for tv speakers, i think it was dumbed down by gta for tv speakers dre shouldn’t allow it on spotify like that some of the beats u can tell were meant to sound alive .. just flat the way it sounds now. strange stuff.
Dumbed down? What does that mean exactly?
it means they got a proper master of it from dre and remastered it to fit tv speakers
all i know is there's is no way what we're hearing is what Dre heard when they mixed these tracks in the studio. and he's generally super pedantic about how his music is presented so something strange is going on.i expected ETA to have a huge thundering bass considering the basic drum pattern. where did all the bass go?Diamond Mind has to be the worst sounding of the lot. vocals are in your face and the rest of the instruments sound super thin.someone posited the idea because they are 'demos' in the in-game story maybe that's why they're roughly mixed as a sort of deliberate thing to sound incomplete. still that's very strange for Dre to let his music get out there in a way that sounds off.
Dre knows nothing about this release IMO.
That’s what I said genius
I asked thurz on Twitter if it was an official release from the EP, the answer: Yessir! That‘s Dre‘s Demos
So as was said - it's just demo. It explains sound quality.